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The happiness of the church, or, A description of those spiritual prerogatives wherewith Christ…The happines of the church, or, A description of those spirituall prerogatiues vvherewith Christ…
The happiness of the church, or, A description of those spiritual prerogatives wherewith Christ hath endowed her considered in some contemplations upon part of the 12. chapter of the Hebrews : together with certain other meditations and discourses upon other portions of Holy Scriptures, the titles whereof immediately precede the book : being the sum of diverse sermons preached in S. Gregory's London / by Thomas Adams ...The happines of the church, or, A description of those spirituall prerogatiues vvherewith Christ hath endowed her considered in some contemplations vpon part of the 12. chapter of the Hebrewes : together with certain other meditations and discourses vpon other portions of Holy Scriptures, the titles wherof immediately precede the booke : being the summe of diuerse sermons preached in S. Gregories London / by Thomas Adams ...
London: printed by G.P. for John Grismand, 1619London: printed by G.P. for Iohn Grismand, 1619
THE HAPPINESS OF THE CHURCH. › Mount Zion.THE HAPPINES OF THE CHVRCH. › Mount Sion.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. In the joy of the Spirit, which is (hilaris cum pondere virtus) a gladness that can neither be suppressed, nor expressed. Sentire est cordis, dicere non est oris: The heart doth feel it, the tongue cannot tell it. It is that nStone with the new Name written in it, which no man knoweth, saving be that receiveth it. There is much rejoicing in the world, but the matter of it is mutable. These lower delights are more sensitive, but more fluid. They sooner cloy us; Magna foelicitas est à foelicitate non vinci. It is a great happiness not to be overcome of happiness. Corporal 2delights work in us a great hunger till they are attained. But Spirituall, Cùm non habentur sunt in fastidio: cùm habentur in desiderio: Whiles we have them not, we 3care not for them, but when we have them, we more eagerly desire them. There is no hunger of it, till we taste it. In illis appetitus generat saturitatem saturitas fastidium. In istis appetitus parrot fruitione•, fruitio parit appetitum. In carnal pleasures, appetite begets fullness; fullness, loathing: in spiritual, desire prepares fruition, fruition begets desiring. Voluptuous pleasure, is like a blister: it begins first with an itching, but at last it swells, & breaks forth in anguish and putrid corruption. There are two observations able to keep us from over-affecting the joys of this world, and from vilipending the joys of Zion.
2. In the ioy of the Spirit, which is (hilaris cum pondere virtus) a gladnes that can neither be suppressed, nor expressed. Sentire est cordis, dicere non est oris: The heart doth feele it, the tongue cannot tell it. It is that nStone with the new Name written in it, which no man knoweth, sauing be that receiueth it. There is much reioycing in the world, but the matter of it is mutable. These lower delights are more sensitiue, but more fluid. They sooner cloy vs; Magna foelicitas est à foelicitate non vinci. It is a great happinesse not to be ouercome of happinesse. Corporall 2